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Like the deer that yearns for running streams…
Several confreres had to excuse themselves before the end of Vespers just after they began chanting Psalm 42. Fr. Adelbert was to blame. He was hebdomadary that week and that evening he reflected at...
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Over and Over
I have a recurring dream. These three show up. One says, “Our help is in the name of the Lord…” Another says, “…who made heaven and earth.” And the other winks and goes, “Badum tish!” Then I wake up.
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Morning Has Broken
Some viewers and followers may know or may have surmised that, before getting married, I spent a few years in a monastery, completed monastic and seminary formation, and became a solemnly professed –...
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The Letter of Paul to the Procrusteans
Greetings brothers and sisters. I’ll keep this relatively short in anticipation of my visit to your homeland. Please feel free to accommodate your image of me as you see fit, but once I am in your...
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Grand Silence, Just Sayin’
To be clear for a change, this one’s about my trying to make sense of my own monastic experience and poke fun at the currently popular expression, that’s what I’m talking about. That should suffice.
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Rest in Peace, Cuthbert
On June 2, 2015 a friend and former confrère of mine, Fr. Cuthbert A. Jack, O.S.B., was laid to rest. You can read his obituary here. After his funeral the monks of St. Vincent Archabbey most certainly...
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Eighty Four, PA
There was an old monk whom I’d see on a daily basis back, oh, thirty some odd years ago. We’d have a similar encounter each and every day. For me it was repetitive; for him each exchange was brand new....
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Heavens to Murgatroyd
Sketch Club, Procreate, iColorama, Sty-HD stylus, iPad Pro (Apple Pencil on back order)
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Lumpensammler
When I was a novice working in and around the refrectory on kitchen duty, the old, German-speaking Benedictine nuns had a nickname for me (and others as well, truth be told), lumpensammler, the rag...
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Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey
Named after the “serrated mountain” of Montserrat located near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat is as breathtaking as its setting. Among the thousands...
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The Bible: Crystal Ball or Mirror?
I know a little bit about the bible. I have an M.Div. for Christ’s sake; it’s one of three graduate degrees for Pete’s sake! I may no longer be an ordained Benedictine monk, but I sure as Hell sat...
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Some things change; some don’t.
I’ve worn a lot of different hats – even a cowl – while getting wider.
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